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Trump: Impeachment 'has been very hard on my family'

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:26 PM PST

Trump: Impeachment 'has been very hard on my family'President Trump campaigned in Louisiana for the first time since the House began public hearings in his impeachment inquiry.


Students at the Santa Clarita school where 2 people were killed and 3 were injured in a shooting say their sense of safety 'will forever be ruined'

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 05:32 PM PST

Students at the Santa Clarita school where 2 people were killed and 3 were injured in a shooting say their sense of safety 'will forever be ruined'Saugus High School sophomore Melissa Santillan and senior Tyler Nilson spoke to Insider about the shooting at their Santa Clarita, California, school.


Chicago gang leader accused of trying to help Islamic State

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 09:11 AM PST

Chicago gang leader accused of trying to help Islamic StateA purported street-gang leader from suburban Chicago who became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Jason Brown, the 37-year-old leader of the AHK gang, could be heard on secret FBI recordings speaking admiringly about beheadings by the Islamic State group, the 27-page complaint says. AHK, which prosecutors say traffics drugs throughout the Chicago area, is comprised of former members of the Black P-Stone, Gangster Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers who converted to Islam, the court filings say.


Vietnam jails music teacher for 'undermining' state

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 05:11 AM PST

Vietnam jails music teacher for 'undermining' stateVietnam sentenced a music teacher to 11 years in prison on Friday for Facebook posts that allegedly undermined the one-party state, which has been accused of tightening the noose on online dissent. Communist Vietnam has long jailed its critics but has come under fire recently for targeting users on Facebook, a popular forum for activists in the country where all independent media is banned. Nguyen Nang Tinh is the latest activist jailed for his Facebook comments, including posts about police brutality, land rights, and a Taiwanese steel firm that dumped toxic sludge into the ocean, killing masses of fish off the coast of Vietnam.


Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings Faces House Ethics Investigation of Relationship with Top Staffer

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:29 PM PST

Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings Faces House Ethics Investigation of Relationship with Top StafferRepresentative Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over his relationship with a top staffer, according to a Thursday press release from the Committee."The Committee is aware of public allegations arising out of Representative Alcee Hastings' personal relationship with an individual employed in his congressional office," read the statement. "On May 14, 2019, the Committee . . . began an investigation regarding the allegations."While the announcement does not name the staffer, it is almost certainly Patricia Williams, Hastings's district-office director and long-time partner, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Williams is Hastings's highest-paid staffer and has worked in his office since 1993."As they continue to conduct their work, I stand ready to fully cooperate with their inquiry," Hastings said in a statement in response to the Committee's announcement.Hastings was indicted on bribery charges in 1981 stemming from actions he allegedly took while he served as a federal judge. During that case, he was represented by Williams. He was acquitted in court, but was impeached and convicted in Congress, marking the sixth time in history that the Senate authorized the removal of a federal judge.Williams has since been disbarred for numerous ethics violations.


Look Out, Israel: China May Have Stolen The Iron Dome

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 01:00 AM PST

Look Out, Israel: China May Have Stolen The Iron DomeChinese hackers, that is.


Fox Regular Claims George Soros ‘Controls a Very Large Part’ of the State Department

Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:10 PM PST

Fox Regular Claims George Soros 'Controls a Very Large Part' of the State DepartmentFox BusinessFollowing the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday, a Trump-supporting husband-wife lawyer duo who are now fully entangled in the Ukraine scandal appeared on Fox Business host Lou Dobbs' show and pushed an outlandish conspiracy theory involving billionaire Democratic financier George Soros, the State Department, the FBI, and Ukraine.During Wednesday night's broadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight, attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing—who reportedly ran an off-the-books operation with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to dig up Ukrainian dirt on former vice president Joe Biden—immediately took issue with senior State Department official George Kent, who testified earlier in the day.After Dobbs, an informal adviser to the president, said he felt Kent and top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor were acting "petty" because they weren't in Giuliani's "irregular" Ukrainian diplomatic channel, he took aim at Kent by invoking Soros, a favorite bogeyman of the right."George Kent is a separate issue. His motives seem peculiar to me," Dobbs declared. "John Solomon reported in March that George Kent pressured Ukrainian investigators to back off an investigation from the anti-corruption action center that a George Soros group sponsored. This is a complicated deal here. And it seems he wanted to keep an investigation of Ukrainian corruption with limits on it."This was all the ammunition diGenova needed to weave an intricate and evidence-proof conspiracy involving the State Department and Soros."Well, there's no doubt that George Soros controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department," the far-right lawyer exclaimed. "He also controls the activities of FBI agents overseas who work for [non-governmental organizations]. That was very evident in Ukraine. And Kent was part of that. He was a very big protector of Soros."The former U.S. attorney, who is a frequent guest on Fox opinion shows, went on claim that Soros "had a daily opportunity to tell the State Department" what to do in Ukraine and "ran it.""He corrupted FBI officials, he corrupted foreign service officers," diGenova concluded. "And the bottom line is this, George Soros wants to run Ukraine and he's doing everything he can to use every lever of the United States government to make that happen, for business interests, not for good government business."Dobbs' show has been a popular landing spot for Soros-based conspiracies, many of which traffic in anti-Semitic tropes. In September, Dobbs claimed Soros' "tentacles reach out into various non-government organizations and nonprofits," which evoked Nazi-era propaganda. Last year, Judicial Watch's Chris Farrell—a then-frequent guest of Dobbs'—was banned from Fox programming for claiming on Dobbs' show that the migrant caravans from Central America were funded by the "Soros-occupied State Department."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.


DNC Announces 10 Candidates in Atlanta Democratic Debate

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:43 PM PST

DNC Announces 10 Candidates in Atlanta Democratic Debate(Bloomberg) -- The Democratic National Committee on Thursday announced the 10 candidates who will participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate in Atlanta on Wednesday.They are: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.Julian Castro, who participated in previous debates, most recently in October at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, didn't make the cut. Another October participant, Beto O'Rourke, has dropped out of the race. Deval Patrick, a former governor of Massachusetts who announced his candidacy on Thursday, also won't be on the stage at the Tyler Perry Studios.The forum will be co-hosted by the Washington Post and MSNBC. Candidates will be questioned by four female moderators: Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker from the network, and Ashley Parker from the Post.The two-hour event had a higher bar to qualify than previous debates. Candidates must have contributions from 165,000 donors, up from 135,000.And the donors must be geographically dispersed, with a minimum of 600 per state in at least 20 states. In addition, participants must either show 3% support in four qualifying national or single-state polls, or have at least 5% support in two qualifying single-state polls released between Sept. 13 and Nov. 13 in the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada.The sixth debate will take place next month in Los Angeles.To contact the reporter on this story: Max Berley in Washington at mberley@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, John HarneyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.


One of Jamal Khashoggi’s close friends said Twitter is the 'only free platform' for many Saudis, but it also may have led to Khashoggi’s brutal murder

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 02:12 AM PST

One of Jamal Khashoggi's close friends said Twitter is the 'only free platform' for many Saudis, but it also may have led to Khashoggi's brutal murderOmar Abdulaziz, a Saudi activist and close friend of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, wrote in an op-ed that Twitter is "crucial" for Saudi freedom.


As Supreme Court weighs DACA, Trump pushes fiction about 'hardened criminals'

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 02:55 PM PST

As Supreme Court weighs DACA, Trump pushes fiction about 'hardened criminals'As the Supreme Court considers whether it is legal for the Trump administration to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, the president and his allies have begun spinning a familiar — and false — narrative about the program's nearly 700,000 beneficiaries.


Jackie Speier erupts at reporter for The Hill

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 01:07 PM PST

Jackie Speier erupts at reporter for The HillAngered by the testimony of ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, California Rep. Jackie Speier upbraided a reporter for The Hill and ripped the outlet's publication of columns by John Solomon, the conservative journalist whose work is at the center of what Yovanovitch described as a "smear campaign" against her. "I just find it reprehensible that any newspaper would just be willing to put that kind of crap out that is not — has no veracity whatsoever, and not check to see if it had any veracity," said Speier, a Democrat serving in her seventh term in the House, according to audio of the exchange reviewed by POLITICO. Speier launched into her critique of The Hill after fielding a question from its senior staff writer Scott Wong about who her dream witness would be at the impeachment proceedings.


American teacher's death in D.R. is being investigated Thursday as a murder

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:30 AM PST

American teacher's death in D.R. is being investigated Thursday as a murderAn American teacher's death in the Dominican Republic was being investigated Thursday as a murder. Police said they found Patricia Anton deceased in her apartment in Puerto Plata, on the country's northern coast, with her hands and feet bound.


20 Great Gifts for Boys Who Love to Tinker

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 01:13 PM PST

20 Great Gifts for Boys Who Love to Tinker


Ray Cromartie: Death row inmate executed without testing DNA evidence ‘that could have proved his innocence’

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 01:38 AM PST

Ray Cromartie: Death row inmate executed without testing DNA evidence 'that could have proved his innocence'A man has been executed in the US state of Georgia despite a request from his lawyers for DNA evidence which they claimed would clear him of murder.Ray Jefferson Cromartie​​ was convicted of the April 1994 shooting of shop worker Richard Slysz twice in the head at the convenience store in the city of Thomasville.


Tempers flare over rebuilding of Notre-Dame spire

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:14 AM PST

Tempers flare over rebuilding of Notre-Dame spireThe French army general charged with overseeing the rebuilding of Paris' fire-mangled Notre-Dame, has caused astonishment by publicly telling the cathedral's chief architect to "shut his mouth" in a sign of tension over the monument's future look. General Jean-Louis Georgelin and chief architect Philippe Villeneuve are at odds over whether to replace the cathedral's spire -- which was toppled in the April 15 blaze -- with an exact replica, or mix things up with a modern twist.


From 'Anonymous,' key excerpts from inside Trump White House on Putin, Hillary

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:10 AM PST

From 'Anonymous,' key excerpts from inside Trump White House on Putin, HillaryKey excerpts from "A Warning," a book by an anonymous senior administration official about President Trump and his administration.


The Army Plans To Use These 6 Weapons In A War Against Russia Or China

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 05:00 AM PST

The Army Plans To Use These 6 Weapons In A War Against Russia Or ChinaThe Army is transitioning away from fighting terrorism.


Fuel rations, price hike hit Iranians amid plunging economy

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 04:48 AM PST

Fuel rations, price hike hit Iranians amid plunging economyAcross the capital, Tehran, long lines of cars waited for hours at pumping stations following the changes in energy policy, which state media announced around midnight without any prior warning to the public. The U.S. withdrew from Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers last year, and re-imposed crippling trade sanctions that have sent the Iranian economy into free-fall. In several locations, Iranian police were seen deployed near gas stations.


'You embarrassed yourself': Kellyanne Conway blasts CNN's Wolf Blitzer for playing George Conway clip

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:29 AM PST

'You embarrassed yourself': Kellyanne Conway blasts CNN's Wolf Blitzer for playing George Conway clipOn CNN Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, special counselor to President Trump, was asked to respond to the assessment given by her husband, George, that testimony in the first public impeachment hearings was damning for her boss.


Moving university to Vienna, Soros vows to defend academic freedom from Orban

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 10:29 AM PST

Moving university to Vienna, Soros vows to defend academic freedom from OrbanBillionaire George Soros opened the new main campus of his Central European University in Vienna on Friday, saying it would not halt its struggle to defend academic freedom from Viktor Orban, the right wing leader he says hounded it from Hungary. CEU's decision last year to move the bulk of its courses out of Hungary followed a long struggle between Hungarian-born Soros, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, and Orban's anti-immigrant government. Since it was founded by Soros in 1991, CEU has been a gateway to the West for thousands of students from eastern Europe, offering U.S.-accredited graduate degree programmes in an academic climate that celebrates free thought.


Black South Carolina Leaders Distance Themselves from Buttigieg Campaign’s ‘Douglass Plan’

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 06:58 AM PST

Black South Carolina Leaders Distance Themselves from Buttigieg Campaign's 'Douglass Plan'Several black leaders in South Carolina who were listed as supporters of the Buttigieg campaign's "Douglass Plan" distanced themselves from the proposal and the campaign when pressed for comment, saying that the campaign was "intentionally vague" in asking for their endorsements.According to a report from The Intercept, three South Carolina black leaders — Columbia City Councilwoman Tameika Devine, Rehoboth Baptist pastor and state Representative Ivory Thigpen, and Johnnie Cordero, chair of the state party's Black Caucus — all expressed misgivings over the way that the Buttigieg campaign featured their names prominently in an open letter published in the the HBCU Times touting the plan's details."We are over 400 South Carolinians, including business owners, pastors, community leaders, and students. Together, we endorse his Douglass Plan for Black America, the most comprehensive roadmap for tackling systemic racism offered by a 2020 presidential candidate," the letter reads.Buttigieg, who polled at zero percent among black voters in South Carolina earlier this year, recently called his plan "the most comprehensive vision put forward by a 2020 candidate on the question of how we're going to tackle systemic racism in this country."When reached for comment, Devine, Thigpen, and Cordero all denied that they intended their correspondence with the Buttigieg campaign over the plan to be read as an endorsement of the candidate."Clearly from the number of calls I received about my endorsement, I think the way they put it out there wasn't clear, that it was an endorsement of the plan, and that may have been intentionally vague. I'm political, I know how that works," Devine said. "I do think they probably put it out there thinking people wouldn't read the fine print or wouldn't look at the details or even contact the people and say, 'Hey, you're endorsing Mayor Pete?'""How it was rolled out was not an accurate representation of where I stand," Thigpen added. "I didn't know about its rolling out. Somebody brought it to my attention, and it was alarming to me, because even though I had had conversations with the campaign, it was clear to me, or at least I thought I made it clear to them, that I was a strong Bernie Sanders supporter — actually co-chair of the state, and I was not seeking to endorse their candidate or the plan."Cordero, who has since been removed as a public supporter, said he did not know "how my name got on there," and was simply emailed the plan by the campaign and asked for feedback."What I was talking back and forth with them about was, who drafted the plan? I know Pete didn't draft the plan. I'm sure he had his advisers do it. But I wanna know who was involved in this plan such that you can claim that you speak for black America," Cordero said. "The long and the short of it was they never sufficiently answered my questions, so I never actually endorsed the plan. They went ahead and used my name."In a statement to National Review, the Buttigieg campaign said that "we never gave the impression publicly that these people were endorsing Pete, only that they supported the plan.""After they indicated their support, we reached out to people multiple times giving them the opportunity to review the language of the op-ed and the option to opt-out. We did hear from people who weren't comfortable being listed and we removed them," the statement said.A source with knowledge of the situation said that the campaign reached out to Devine on Thursday night, who remained supportive of the plan. It is unclear whether the campaign also reached out to Thigpen.


Scientists Are Fighting Over One of the Hottest Places on Earth

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 08:30 AM PST

Scientists Are Fighting Over One of the Hottest Places on EarthSome say life can exist there. Others say no way.


Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband's corpse in a bedroom freezer

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 12:57 PM PST

Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband's corpse in a bedroom freezerAuthorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband's corpse in a freezer in a bedroom inside her Missouri home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year. Barbara Watters of Joplin, Mo., was charged Wednesday with abandonment of a corpse, a felony that is punishable by up to four years in prison.


Hong Kong protesters defy Xi with pro-democracy rallies

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 12:47 PM PST

Hong Kong protesters defy Xi with pro-democracy ralliesHong Kong pro-democracy protesters defied a warning by China's President Xi Jinping and took to the streets again Friday, as the political turmoil seeped out to London, where a territorial minister was confronted by masked demonstrators. Protests have swept Hong Kong since June as many in the city of 7.5 million people have vented fury at eroding freedoms under Chinese rule. Violence has escalated, and tensions have spread overseas, sparking friction between China and Britain, which governed Hong Kong until 1997.


Dressed to Kill: Arming Ukraine Could Put It on a Path Towards War

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:32 AM PST

Dressed to Kill: Arming Ukraine Could Put It on a Path Towards WarEven after Russian military forces withdrawal, deep-seated resentments will linger in Donbas. The lethal aid policy's greatest flaw is that it completely fails to address these resentments, and in doing so, artificially simplifies the conflict to a proxy war with Russia.


N. Korea calls Biden a ‘rabid dog’ for insulting its dignity

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:03 PM PST

N. Korea calls Biden a 'rabid dog' for insulting its dignityNorth Korea called former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden a "rabid dog" that "must be beaten to death with a stick" in its latest swipe against foreign and political leaders it sees as hostile to the North's leadership. The North correctly spelled Biden's name in May when it labeled him a "fool of low IQ" after he called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a tyrant during a speech. North Korea often insults foreign leaders and politicians over what it sees as slanderous remarks toward its leadership or hostile policies against its government.


View Photos of the 2020 Morgan Plus 4

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 11:13 AM PST

View Photos of the 2020 Morgan Plus 4


Impeachment witnesses can expect abuse, death threats, say survivors of past political scandals

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:15 AM PST

Impeachment witnesses can expect abuse, death threats, say survivors of past political scandalsJohn Dean entered the witness protection program. Valerie Plame feared for her children. Both are veterans of U.S. political scandals that threatened the White House, and they have a warning for the witnesses who are testifying against President Donald Trump in the current public impeachment hearings.


'He doesn't seem like the kind of kid to do this': Classmates, neighbors surprised by suspected Santa Clarita shooter's identity

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:57 PM PST

'He doesn't seem like the kind of kid to do this': Classmates, neighbors surprised by suspected Santa Clarita shooter's identityThe 16-year-old who fatally shot two students and wounded three others at Saugus High School in California was an unlikely shooter, classmates said.


An expert in fraternity hazing deaths says coddling parents are part of the problem

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:32 AM PST

An expert in fraternity hazing deaths says coddling parents are part of the problemHank Nuwer, a journalist who keeps a database on fraternity deaths, thinks parents aren't teaching their children "self-restraint."


School principal who banned LGBT+ books indicted over child abuse images

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 02:31 AM PST

School principal who banned LGBT+ books indicted over child abuse imagesA former headteacher who tried to ban a string of books over LGBT+ themes has been indicted on charges of possessing child sex abuse imagery.Phillip Todd Wilson faces 17 charges that were approved by a Kentucky grand jury on Tuesday.


The new seal for the Navy's next aircraft carrier contains a hint about big changes coming to naval aviation

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 09:11 AM PST

The new seal for the Navy's next aircraft carrier contains a hint about big changes coming to naval aviationThe recently unveiled seal for the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy features its best-known aircraft, along with a future addition.


After 50 years, it's past time to bring human LGBTQ+ characters to America's Sesame Street

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 05:45 AM PST

After 50 years, it's past time to bring human LGBTQ+ characters to America's Sesame StreetInternational versions of Sesame Street reflect local audiences. America is ready for gay characters but cancellation is a risk in some countries.


Rather Than Retiring, The Storied B-52 Is Getting Upgraded. Here's Why

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:30 PM PST

Rather Than Retiring, The Storied B-52 Is Getting Upgraded. Here's WhyThe Air Force isn't done with it yet.


Iran moves on ultra-cheap petrol, starts rationing

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 06:09 AM PST

Iran moves on ultra-cheap petrol, starts rationingIran imposed petrol rationing and raised pump prices by at least 50 percent Friday, saying the move aims to help the needy with cash handouts and is not due to a budget deficit. The Islamic republic provides some of the most heavily subsidised petrol in the world, with the pump price previously standing at just 10,000 rials (less than nine US cents) a litre. "Increasing petrol prices is to the people's benefit and also to help the society's strata under (economic) pressure," President Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting, quoted by state news agency IRNA.


Yale student fights against his mom’s possible deportation

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:45 PM PST

Yale student fights against his mom's possible deportationA Yale University graduate student is constantly watching his phone as he waits for news on his mother, who is detained and could be deported to Honduras, a country where he says she won't get the medical treatment she needs as a survivor of stage-four cancer. Cristian Padilla Romero, a 24-year-old doctoral student, created an online petition asking for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release his mother, and raised more than $39,000 through a crowdfunding campaign for her legal and medical needs. Padilla Romero, a Ph.D student in Latin American history, faces an uncertain future himself: He is part of a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which shields young immigrants from deportation.


'Witness intimidation in real-time': Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstruction

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 10:18 AM PST

'Witness intimidation in real-time': Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstructionHouse Democrats are calling Donald Trump's decision to attack Marie Yovanovitch mid-hearing on Friday a blatant example of witness intimidation, further building the case to charge the president with obstruction in potential articles of impeachment. Lawmakers of both parties were stunned to see Trump's disparaging tweet about the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in the middle of a hearing where she had already described in great detail how she felt personally threatened by the president. "What you saw today — witness intimidation in real-time by the president of the United States," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told reporters during a brief pause in the hearing.


China envoy threatens Sweden over award to detained writer Gui Minhai

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 03:51 AM PST

China envoy threatens Sweden over award to detained writer Gui MinhaiChina threatened Sweden with unspecified "counter measures" if its culture minister attends a literary award ceremony on Friday for Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen who was abducted in Thailand in 2015 and is now in detention in China. The case of Chinese-born Gui Minhai, who studied in Sweden in the 1980s and was based in Hong Kong when he published books critical of China's leaders, has soured relations between Sweden and China.


Santa Clarita students made an active shooter video. Two months later, they took shelter in fear

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:45 PM PST

Santa Clarita students made an active shooter video. Two months later, they took shelter in fearA shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita Thursday morning is raising questions about school security measures.


A British woman was sentenced to just a year in prison for performing an illegal butt injection that caused a 34-year-old American woman's death

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 07:48 AM PST

A British woman was sentenced to just a year in prison for performing an illegal butt injection that caused a 34-year-old American woman's deathDonna Francis fled to the UK a day after killing Kelly Mayhew in 2015. She was extradited back to the US in August to face trail. She pleaded guilty.


See Photos of the 2020 Nissan Titan

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 06:02 AM PST

See Photos of the 2020 Nissan Titan


American Airlines flight attendants have literally begged not to work on the Boeing 737 Max when it returns, union boss says (BA)

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 08:43 AM PST

American Airlines flight attendants have literally begged not to work on the Boeing 737 Max when it returns, union boss says (BA)Lori Bassani heads the union for 28,000 American Airlines flight attendants, and she warned of genuine fear among staff over returning to the 737 Max.


The U.S. Marine Corps Is Making Big Changes (Thanks to Threats from Russia and China)

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:00 PM PST

The U.S. Marine Corps Is Making Big Changes (Thanks to Threats from Russia and China)It's no secret that the U.S. Marine Corps is changing in order to better prepare for major warfare with China and Russia. Gen. David Berger, the Marine commandant, is overseeing several studies that could result in the Corps cutting some units and adding others and, in the process, radically changing how and why it functions.


Israel to probe 'unexpected' civilian casualties in Gaza strike

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:20 AM PST

Israel to probe 'unexpected' civilian casualties in Gaza strikeIsrael's military pledged Friday to investigate unexpected civilian casualties in a strike targeting Islamic Jihad in Gaza, where a ceasefire agreement remained fragile after fighting left 34 Palestinians dead. Israel hit back with strikes early Friday against Islamic Jihad, the second most powerful Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip after Islamist movement Hamas which runs the enclave.


Just the facts, but whose facts? College newspapers face student ire.

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 05:02 AM PST

Just the facts, but whose facts? College newspapers face student ire.At Harvard and Northwestern, student journalists face blowback for reporting on protests. Can they balance a free press with wishes of student body?


Kavanaugh avoids controversy in first major appearance

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:07 PM PST

Kavanaugh avoids controversy in first major appearanceJustice Brett Kavanaugh called himself grateful and optimistic Thursday, avoiding controversy in his first major public appearance since his stormy Supreme Court confirmation a year ago. The 54-year-old Kavanaugh chose a friendly audience for his remarks, a dinner of more than 2,000 members of the Federalist Society at Washington's Union Station. The conservative legal organization has championed judges appointed by President Donald Trump, including Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch.


Federal judge rules U.S.-born 'ISIS bride' is not an American citizen

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 02:44 PM PST

Federal judge rules U.S.-born 'ISIS bride' is not an American citizenA federal judge ruled Thursday that 25-year-old Hoda Muthana, who lived in Alabama but left the U.S. in 2014 to join ISIS, is not an American citizen and therefore the country is not required to repatriate her.


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